Instruction plus the reflection tool improved vocational students' actual collaborative chat behavior compared with control, but instruction alone did not demonstrate any desired collaborative behaviors more often than control¶
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Currency · newest study 2019 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 2 of 2 entries) · not reviewed by a person
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q3 i? Condition had an overall multivariate effect on communication variables (Wilk's Λ = .446), with instruction-with-tool students significantly higher than control on domain-related talk, responsive talk, critical statements, questions asking for agreement and (dis)confirmations, and significantly lower on off-task, negative and informative talk. → Elise H. Eshuis 2019
q3 i? Instruction-only students did not demonstrate any desired collaborative behaviors more often than control students, contrary to expectations based on prior RIDE-rule studies. → Elise H. Eshuis 2019 (2)
Evidence¶
Elise H. Eshuis 2019¶
Elise H. Eshuis, Judith ter Vrugte, Anjo Anjewierden, Lars Bollen, Jakob Sikken, Ton de Jong. (2019). Improving the quality of vocational students' collaboration and knowledge acquisition through instruction and joint reflection. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (2019) 14:53–76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-019-09296-0
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MANOVA on coded chat utterances (17,412 utterances; 92 students in the chat analysis) from the CSCL intervention. Bonferroni post-hocs showed instruction-with-tool vs control, e.g., "domain-related talk (p < .001), responsive talk (p = .024), critical statements (p = .015)".
"Results show an overall effect of condition on the communication variables, Wilk 's Λ =. 4 4 6 ,F(28, 152) = 2.70, p <. 0 0 1 ,ηp2 = .332."
Elise H. Eshuis 2019 (2)¶
Elise H. Eshuis, Judith ter Vrugte, Anjo Anjewierden, Lars Bollen, Jakob Sikken, Ton de Jong. (2019). Improving the quality of vocational students' collaboration and knowledge acquisition through instruction and joint reflection. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (2019) 14:53–76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-019-09296-0
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Chat-coding comparison of the instruction-only condition against control found no desired collaborative behavioral differences, contrary to prior studies by Saab et al. (2007) and Gijlers et al. (2009) that found instruction effects with dyads.
"It is noteworthy that students who received the instruction only, did not demonstrate any of the desired collaborative behaviors more often in comparison to students in the control condition. This is not in line with our expectations."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Instruction about collaboration rules alone has limited utility; explicit scaffolding via joint reflection tools during collaboration adds unique value — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- RIDE-instructed dyads more often use elicitative, responsive, confirmation/acceptance, and asking-for-action communicative activities — related
- Instruction-only vocational students matched control on all univariate communication variables, showing no significant differences between the two conditions in this study — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Vocational students who received collaboration instruction plus an online joint-reflection tool showed significantly higher domain-knowledge learning gains than control students, while instruction alone did not differ from control — related
- Instruction combining communication rules (RIDE) and a hypothesis tool (CHT) increases team regulation in computer-supported collaborative inquiry, and team regulation relates to learning outcomes only in that combined condition — related
- Learners who reflected collaboratively on their prior collaboration gained more knowledge about effective collaboration than learners guided by an external collaboration script or unsupported learners — related
- Gaps in reflective training: 42.9 per cent of trainees had not experienced on-line collaborative talk and 42 per cent had not been asked to produce written assignments about ELT in Oman — related
- Individually processed reflection prompts alone were insufficient to foster knowledge acquisition in secondary vocational students — related
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Instruction plus the reflection tool improved vocational students' actual collaborative chat behavior compared with control, but instruction alone did not demonstrate any desired collaborative behaviors more often than control |
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Instruction plus the reflection tool improved vocational students' actual collaborative chat behavior compared with control, but instruction alone did not demonstrate any desired collaborative behaviors more often tha... |
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2019 |
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2026-10-20 |
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